Rodney Atkins Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brain is the only sword of the peaceable man and sword is the only brain of the violent man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way. — Jeremy Renner

All Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We would not be Human if we did not prefer to be the devourers rather than the devoured, but either is a blessing. Should your life be required of you, rest assured that it is required by Life. — Margaret Atwood

The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me. — Charlie Day

...in Dillard it's the comedy of rapture. Or at least it's a comedy that permits prose and thought to soar while inoculating the rapturous against the three ills of which nature writers should live in permanent dread: preciousness, reverence, and earnestness... — Geoff Dyer

If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers. — Jack R. Cotner

The advice I would give myself is: "Don't date that guy, don't drink that, go right home, get a good night's sleep." — Jessica Pare

But joy, the joy you've known, the love you've known, that is what matters, and we, the conscious ones, the ones who can grieve, only we can know joy. — Anne Rice

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer

We came from a mystery and it's to a mystery we go Maybe there's something there, but I'm betting it's not God as any church understands Him. Look at the babble of conflicting beliefs and you'll know that. They cancel each other out and leave nothing. If you want truth, a power greater than yourselves, look to the lightning - a billion volts in each strike, and a hundred thousand amperes of current, and temperatures of fifty thousand degrees Fahrenheit. There's a higher power in that, I grant you. But here in this building? No. Believe what you want, but I tell you this: behind Saint Paul's darkened glass, there is nothing but a lie. — Stephen King

When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life. — Kofi Annan

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect. — Junior Seau

Bear calamities with meekness. — Euripides